Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!aaron From: Aaron.Roydhouse@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Aaron Roydhouse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: CDAR-500 SEEN!!! CD-ROM for ST/Mega Keywords: In Bay Area Message-ID: <1990Sep07.014233.27084@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 7 Sep 90 01:42:33 GMT References: <3906@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 31 In article mfolivo@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Mark Newton-John) writes: > >Walking into an Atari only dealer to pick up a 1020 printer (hey, I >collect old Atari stuff) I saw this in a corner. > >The Atari CD-ROM player that has been held back from release. They have been available here (NZ) for a bit longer than I can remember (at least 12 months, but is was so long ago I really can't remember exactly). They have sold in very limited numbers, mainly because they have very little support and are priced at NZ$1750 (US$850 I guess). The unit presently come with developers documentation and example code and progs aimed at developers. Atari offer _no_ disks for the unit at all (although is does play music CD's ok :-), so you must rely on third party sources (the doc's say it supports the Hi-Sierra system). The buyers I have spoken to have been either developers or BBS's. The Atari BBS with one I have rung had a disk with lots of PD software and PD 'C' code for the ST on-line for downloading. I've seen no mention of any other support or developments for the unit since it was initially available (surprise, surprise :-( Aaron. -- _________________________________________________________________________ / \ The Entity | Phone: +64 4 850 988 Fax: +64 4 801 8777 |@/ Aaron Roydhouse | SMail: PO Box 11-704, Wellington, New Zealand \__ aaron@comp.vuw.ac.nz | Quote: "Death - To stop sinning suddenly"